Electricity: conductors and insulators – Boxes and housings – With electrical device
Patent
1996-02-09
1997-10-07
Sough, Hyung S.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Boxes and housings
With electrical device
220 35, 220 402, H01R 13516
Patent
active
056751230
ABSTRACT:
The housing may be quickly and easily assembled in a clam-shell manner. The housing includes a pair of half-shells with each having a tongue for connecting to a face plate and a locking mechanism for connecting the half-shells together. The tongues are inserted into a pair of tongue-receiving fulcrum structures of the plate so that the half-shells are positioned in an open clam-shell arrangement. To complete the connection and the formation of the housing, the half-shells are rotated towards each other until the locking mechanism of one of the half-shells fastens to the locking mechanism of the other half-shell. Furthermore, the housing provides a wall-mounting mechanism for releasably attaching the housing to a wall, wherein that mechanism has two operative positions, including locking and release positions. In the locking position, the wall-mounting mechanism securely mounts the housing to the wall, and in the release position, the housing is unmounted and removable from the wall.
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Aupperle Donald P.
Kahle Steven H.
Merkes William L.
Proctor Richard L.
Ure George A.
Cruising Equipment Company, Inc.
Reichard Dean A.
Sough Hyung S.
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